Keyword: R&D

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AstraZeneca Bets on Nanotech with Bind Therapeutics Deal

22.04.2013 - AstraZeneca is to pay privately held Bind Therapeutics as much as $200 million to develop a cancer medicine using the U.S. biotech company's nanotechnology drug delivery system...

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Astellas, GSK Vie to Make 'High Altitude' Anaemia Pill

19.04.2013 - Japan's Astellas Pharma and Britain's GlaxoSmithKline are competing to develop a new kind of medicine that boosts production of red blood cells by making the body think it is at...

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Lanxess Opens Application Development Center for Asian Plastics Industry

18.04.2013 - The specialty chemicals company Lanxess has opened a new Asia-Pacific Application Development Center for its high-tech plastics in the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park. It is...

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BASF Steps Up Measures Against Patent Infringements

15.04.2013 - BASF is taking firm steps to stop the distribution of counterfeit versions of its Irgacure 819 photoinitiator product. After repeatedly issuing notifications, BASF has contacted...

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New Technology Speeding Progress on Bird Flu Vaccine

13.04.2013 - Even as U.S. officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus from China - typically the first step in making a flu vaccine - government-backed...

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Wacker Expands Its Technical Center in Brazil

11.04.2013 - Wacker Chemie is strengthening its presence in South America, and today inaugurates its expanded technical center, including training center, near São Paulo, Brazil. The new...

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GSK Plans $1 Million Prize to Jump-start "Electroceuticals"

10.04.2013 - GlaxoSmithKline, Britain's biggest drugmaker, is placing a small but important bet on a new way of treating diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body. The company said...

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Bristol-Myers Names Cuss to Replace Sigal as R&D Chief

08.04.2013 - U.S. drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb said on Sunday it has named Francis Cuss to become its next chief scientific officer after Elliott Sigal retires as head of research and...